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Filed June 9, 1922 2 sneenssheez 1 Nov. 4 1924 B. DOLAN BLOVOMERS Filed June 9, 1922 2 vSheets-Shea` 2 Patentes Nov. a, ieee.'

tra rar isms BERNARD DOLAN, 0F MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SSIGNOR- TO WYlIAN, PARTRXDGE t COMPANY, 0F MINNEPOLIS, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OF MINNESOTA,

BLOOMERS.

Application filed June 9,

To all whom. t may concern:

Be it known that l, BERNARD DoLAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bloomers and Il do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of. the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates dergarments for women', misses and children, and is directed to the improvement of a garment generally designate-d as bloomers. The feature of construction. involved in these bloernersis,I however, capable of more general application in garments having lthe general characteristics or form of bloomers and, hence, it will be understood that the term bloomers is herein used in a broad and liberal sense.

The results sought for and attained'in my invention are, generally stated, a highly eilicient and comfortable garment that can be made with a minimum waste of cloth `and which will require the least possible amount of stitching. My improved garment is so designed that it may be made from a single normally flat piece of cloth and the edges of this single piece of cloth united 'by two sea-ms, to wit: .One running along the insides of the legs and the other running down the front and under the crotch. Preferably, the garment thus formed will be gathered around the waist and around the bottoms of the legs.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring -to the drawings:

Fig. 1 shows the completed garment or bloomers; v

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary'section on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary section on the line 3 3 of Fig. .1;

Fig. 4 shows the flat single which the garment is cut; and

Fig. .5 is a perspective showing the piece of cloth folded and the stitching of its edges partly completed. g

Referring first to Fig. 4, it will be noted piece from particularly to uny 1922. Serial No. 567,175.

that the single piece of cloth 6 is cut with a waist-forming line 7, with front seam lines .8, with inside leg-seam-forming lines 9 and line and the lower leg ends'remain to be gathered. In gathering the waistline, the

. general form to the gamenhbut the waistcloth sheet 6 is preferably formed with darts y 11, preferably formed by folding the cloth, but the complete upper edge of this waistline will be formed with a folded casing 12 in which an elastic waist-band 13 is preferably placed. The lower edges of the legs may be gathered by one or more elastic A bands, or, as shown, :teach leg has two .such elastic bands 1 4 and 15 placed, respectively, in casings 16 and 17. The casings 12, 16- and 17 will, of course, be gathered by the elastic bands placed therein. ylhe fullness in the seat of the garment is given chieiiy by gathering of the waist-band in proportion to the garment, but` the gathering in the lower ends of the legs also contributes to this result. By reference to Fig. 4 it will be noted that the piece from which the .garment is made has much greater transverse width at its centralA portion than it has at its end portions.' This feature also increases the fullness in the seat ofthe arment. Otherwise stated, the garment 1s made of such proportions as to give ample fullness in the seat and then the waist and preferably also the lower ends of the legs are gathered by lateral or substantially horizontal contraction or gathering up of the cloth material. There is no gathering whatever of the Ygarment vertically, that is, either by gathering of outside or inside leg seams or of the front p seam of the garment.

The above described construction makes it possiblev to rapidly stamp the garments from cloth and to rapidly 'and eioiently l manufacturing cost has been found to be eX- ceedin ly low, for reasons already clearly pointed out.

What l claim is:

1. A Womans garment of the bloomer type made from a single piece of material having in its lower central portion a crotchforming notch and formed on its Waist line with a convex curve merging at its ends into concave curves, said piece at its ends having straight edges stitched to the Aedges of said crotch-forming notch, and above said straight edges having concave curves joining straight edges extended to the ends of 'the Waist line of the arment, said latter noted curved and straiglgdt edges of the opposite sides of. the piece being stitched together to form the front seam of the garment, the said garment-forming piece at its transverse central portion measured from its crotch-forming notch to the Waist line edge being materially Wider than the end portions. of said garment-forming piece, whereby the garment is given increased fullness of the seat.

2. A Womans garment of the bloomer type made from a single piece of material having in its lower central portion a crotch-forming .notch and formed on its Waist line With a Ibeing materially Wider than the end portions of said garment-forming piece, Whereby the garment is given increased fullness of the seat.

lln testimony whereof l afix my signature.

BERNARD DULAN, 

